First Baptist Church, Hillsborough, NC This month a new Baptist church is formed on Sand Mountain in Jackson County in north Alabama. The former Sand Mountain mission, an “arm” of nearby Friendship Baptist Church, formally becomes a church. Taking the name of Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church of Christ, the new church is constituted with…
Today there is great excitement among members of the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, a congregation straddling the Wake and Chatham county lines: many, perhaps most, of the church’s young men in this country church enroll in the Cedar Fork Rifles (also known as the North Carolina Grays). By the end of the day, the roster…
Today Kentucky declares its neutrality in the Civil War. Kentucky’s decision is a big blow to the Confederacy, ultimately proving important to Union victory four years down the road. The decision, this same day, of North Carolina’s secession convention to withdraw from the Union – the tenth state to do so – does not mitigate…